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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Ontology of Phonology
• 3. Where and What is Phonology? A representational perspective
• 4. Scientific Realism, Sociophonetic Variation, and Innate Endowments in Phonology
• 5. Speaker, Speech, and Knowledge of Sounds
• 6. Phonology and Phonetics in Psycholinguistic Models of Speech Perception
• 7. Phonology as Cognition
• 8. Vowel Patterns in Mind and Sound
• 9. Boundary Disputes: The distinction between phonetic and phonological sound patterns
• 10. Conceptual Foundations of Phonology as a Laboratory Science
• 11. Modularity and Modality in Phonology
• 12. Phonetics and the Origin of Phonology.
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Phonological Knowledge addresses central questions in the foundations of phonology and locates them within their larger linguistic and philosophical context. Phonology is a discipline grounded in observable facts, but like any discipline it rests on conceptual assumptions. This book investigates the nature, status, and acquisition of phonological knowledge: it enquires into the conceptual and empirical foundations of phonology, and considers the relation of phonology to the theory of language and other capacities of mind. The authors address a wide range of interrelated questions, the most central of which is this: is phonological knowledge different from linguistic knowledge in general? They offer responses to this question from a variety of perspectives, each of which has consequences for how phonology and language are conceived. Each also involves a host of further questions concerning the modularity of mind and of language; whether phonology should be included in the language faculty; the nature-convention debate; the content of phonological elements and its relation to phonetic substance; the implications of sign languages for phonology; whether functional and variationist considerations are relevant in phonology; how phonological knowledge arises; and, not least, the data and methods appropriate for phonological inquiry. Phonological Knowledge is an important contribution to the most fundamental issues in phonology and the understanding of language. It will interest researchers in and advanced students of phonology, linguistic theory, and philosophy of language. In addition to the editors, the authors are Mary Beckman, Silvain Bromberger, Jennifer Fitzpatrick, Paul Foulkes, Mark Hale, Morris Halle, John Harris, Harry van der Hulst, Robert Ladd, G. Lindsey, Scott Myers, Janet Pierrehumbert, Charles Reiss, Shelley Velleman, Marilyn Vihman, and Linda Wheeldon. By relating foundational questions of phonology to their larger linguistic, cognitive, and philosophical contexts this book will generate interest not only among phonologists and their advanced students, but also among all those concerned to understand the forms and functions of language.
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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Chapter 1. Sound Change
• Chapter 2. Linguistic Universals and Linguistic Change
• Chapter 3. Historical Linguistics
• Chapter 4. Historical Linguistics
• Chapter 5. Explanation in Phonology
• Chapter 6. How abstract is Phonology?
• Chapter 7. Productivity in Phonology
• Chapter 8. From Paleogrammarians to Neogrammarians
• Chapter 9. On the Evaluation Measure
• Chapter 10. Remarks on Analogical Change
• Chapter 11. Analogical Change as a Problem for Linguistic Theory
• Bibliography
• Index

Harry van der Hulst's model of Radical CV Phonology has roots in the framework of Dependency Phonology, but proposes a rather different 'geometry', which reduces the set of unary elements to just two: -C- and -V-. The model explains the phonological distinctions that function contrastively in the world's languages rather than presenting it as a 'random' list. Van der Hulst shows how this model accounts for a number of central claims about markedness and minimal specification. He explains how the representational system accounts for phonological rules and shows how this theory can be applied to sign language structure. Through comparison to other models, he also provides insight into current theories of segmental structure, commonly used feature systems, as well as recurrent controversies.
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• Intro
• Half-title
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction: contents of this book
• 1 Basic assumptions about phonology
• 2 Background: Dependency and Government Phonology
• 3 Radical CV Phonology
• 4 Manner
• 5 Place
• 6 Laryngeal: phonation and tone
• 7 Special structures
• 8 Predictability and preference
• 9 Minimal specification
• 10 Radical CV Phonology applied to sign phonology
• 11 Comparison to other models
• 12 Conclusions
• Appendix
• References
• Subject index
• Language index

A new theory of the structure of phonological representations for segments and syllables.

• Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations and symbols
• 1: Overview and aims
• 2: Complex weight for stress
• 3: Prosodic minimality in isolation and in context
• 4: Quantitative meter: Categorical and gradient weight
• 5: Prosodic end-weight and the stress-weight interface
• 6: Conclusion Appendix: Key constraints References Index.
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This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of phonological weight to date, bringing together traditional notions of categorical, rime-based weight and new developments in statistical prosodic phonology. The book demonstrates that while some systems treat weight as a simple (heavy vs. light) distinction, others treat it as a rich continuum of heaviness. Following an introduction to weight-sensitive systems in phonology, Kevin Ryan explores the range of phenomena that interact with prosodic weight. Chapters examine the analysis of scales in terms of prominence rather than moraic coercion; prosodic minimality in the context of larger prosodic constituents; syllable weight in metrics; and the relationship between prosodic end-weight and stress. Throughout, the analysis is based on a survey of weight systems both within and across the world's languages, which yields a number of valuable generalizations and points towards a universal theory of weight in human language.
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• Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations and symbols
• 1: Overview and aims
• 2: Complex weight for stress
• 3: Prosodic minimality in isolation and in context
• 4: Quantitative meter: Categorical and gradient weight
• 5: Prosodic end-weight and the stress-weight interface
• 6: Conclusion Appendix: Key constraints References Index.
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This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of phonological weight to date, bringing together traditional notions of categorical, rime-based weight and new developments in statistical prosodic phonology. The book demonstrates that while some systems treat weight as a simple (heavy vs. light) distinction, others treat it as a rich continuum of heaviness. Following an introduction to weight-sensitive systems in phonology, Kevin Ryan explores the range of phenomena that interact with prosodic weight. Chapters examine the analysis of scales in terms of prominence rather than moraic coercion; prosodic minimality in the context of larger prosodic constituents; syllable weight in metrics; and the relationship between prosodic end-weight and stress. Throughout, the analysis is based on a survey of weight systems both within and across the world's languages, which yields a number of valuable generalizations and points towards a universal theory of weight in human language.
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• Machine generated contents note: 1.Phonology and Theoretical Neuroscience
• Exercises
• 2.Language as Knowledge
• 2.1.A Grim Scenario: Introducing I-Language
• 2.2.Innateness and Universal Grammar
• 2.3.Abstract Knowledge
• 3.Apologia
• Exercises
• 4.Formalism with Sets
• 4.1.Formalisms: A Justification
• 4.2.Sets
• 4.3.Sets and Relations
• 4.3.1.Set Membership
• 4.3.2.Subset and Proper Subset Relations
• 4.3.3.Superset and Proper Superset Relations
• 4.4.Set Operations and Special Sets
• 4.4.1.Set Intersection
• 4.4.2.The Empty Set
• 4.4.3.Set Union
• 4.4.4.Set Subtraction
• 4.5.Intensional versus Extensional Definitions
• 4.6.Functions
• 4.7.Set Cardinality
• 4.8.Ordered Sets
• Exercises
• 5.Suggested Reading
• 6.Segmentation: Sound and Meaning
• 6.1.Do We Need Phonology?
• 6.2.Methods of Segmentation
• 6.3.The Lexicon
• 6.4.What's Ahead?
• Exercises
• 7.Rules: Yet Another Module of Grammar
• 7.1.Two Forms, One Meaning

• Note continued: 7.2.In Search of an Explanation
• 7.2.1.Systematicity
• 7.2.2.Productivity
• 7.3.Phonological Rules and Morphemes
• 7.4.Derivation Tables
• Exercises
• 8.Review
• 9.Formalization
• 9.1.Smurfs and Science
• 9.2.Expressibility
• 10.Formalizing Phonological Rules
• 10.1.Functions on Strings
• 10.2.A More Constrained Approach to Phonological Functions
• 10.3.SPE System
• 10.4.Expressibility in SPE
• 10.5.Useless Rules
• Exercises
• 11.Interpreting Phonological Rules
• 11.1.Directionality in Rule Application
• 11.2.A More Realistic Example
• Exercises
• 12.The Semantics of SPE Phonological Rules
• 12.1.Semantics for IPA Symbols
• 12.2.Semantics for SPE Rules
• 12.3.Optional: Sketch of an Alternative Semantics
• Exercises
• 13.Introducing Neutralization
• 13.1.Taking Stock
• 13.2.Neutralization: A Dataset
• 14.Choosing Lexical Forms
• 14.1.Implicit Assumptions
• 14.2.Modus Tollendo Ponens (MTP)

• Note continued: 14.3.Presenting a Phonological Solution
• Exercises
• 15.Nothing I: No Morpheme versus No Phonology
• 16.Nothing II: Enhancing Rule Environments for Nothing
• 16.1.Before and After Nothing
• 16.2.Expanding Rule Environments
• 16.3.Interpreting the Environment
• Exercises
• 17.Nothing III: Something for Nothing
• 17.1.Insertion and Deletion
• 17.2.Expressing Insertion and Deletion in Words
• Exercises
• 18.The Semantics of Segment Insertion and Deletion
• 18.1.Ordering of Segment Strings
• 18.2.Ordering and Segment Tokens
• 18.3.Deletion Functions
• 18.4.Insertion Functions
• 18.5.Old Rules Revisited
• Exercises
• 19.Segment Mapping Diagrams
• 19.1.SMD for Neutralization
• 19.2.SMDs Involving epsilon
• Exercises
• 20.Refining Neutralization
• 20.1.Neutralizations as Many-to-One Mappings
• 20.2.Why Is the Analysis of Neutralization Challenging?
• 20.3.Neutralization by a Set of Rules
• 21.Some Neutralization Patterns

• Note continued: 21.1.Multiple Neutralization in One Context
• 21.2.Multiple Convergent Neutralization in Korean
• 21.3.Overlapping Neutralizations
• 21.4.Overlapping Neutralizations with epsilon
• 21.5.Reciprocal Neutralization
• 21.6.Non-surfacing Segments in URs
• 21.7.Combined Neutralization
• 21.7.1.Combined Neutralization within a Paradigm
• 21.7.2.Combined Neutralization across Paradigms
• 22.Neutralization Exercises
• 23.Splits without Neutralization
• 24.Rules as Generalizations
• 24.1.Simplicity and Generalizations
• 24.2.Environments Define Equivalence Classes
• 24.3.Counting Environments
• 24.4.Another Peek at Natural Classes
• 25.Allophones
• 25.1.Allophony versus Neutralization
• 25.2.Set Complements and Complementary Distribution
• 25.3.Allophones Again
• 25.4.Korean and the Status of Allophones
• 26.More on Distributional Patterns and Phonotactics
• 26.1.Distributional Patterns
• 26.2.Phonotactics
• Exercises

• Note continued: 27.Confused Use of Complementary Distribution in Syntax
• 28.Function Composition
• 28.1.Order (Sometimes) Matters
• 28.2.Demonstration of Rule Ordering
• Exercises
• 29.Rule Interactions I: FEEDING
• 29.1.FEEDING: The Basic Pattern
• 29.2.Defining FEEDING
• 29.3.A Non-ordering Solution: The Free Reapplication Model
• 29.4.Neutralization and Homophony
• 29.5.Complex SMDs
• 30.Rule Interactions II: COUNTERFEEDING
• 30.1.COUNTERFEEDING: The Basic Pattern
• 30.2.Rule Ordering for Strelitzian
• 30.3.Direct Mapping for Strelitzian
• 30.4.Choosing a Model
• 30.5.More Complex SMDs
• Exercises
• 31.Combinatorics of Rule Ordering
• Exercises
• 32.Minimal Pairs and Complementary Distribution
• 33.Rule Interactions III: BLEEDING and COUNTERBLEEDING
• 33.1.Bleeding
• 33.2.Counterbleeding
• Exercises
• 34.Alternative Analyses
• Exercises
• 35.Getting Ready to Expand SPE
• 36.Metathesis
• 37.Length

• Note continued: 37.1.The Abstractness of Phonological Length
• 37.2.Representing Length
• Exercises
• 38.Tone
• 39.Syllables I
• 39.1.Discovering Syllables
• 39.2.Syllables as Hierarchical Structures
• 39.3.Intrasyllable Relations in Rules
• 39.4.Intersyllable Relations in Rules
• Exercises
• 40.Syllables II
• 40.1.Syllable Types
• 40.2.Inferring Syllable Structure
• 40.3.Reasoning about Syllable Structure
• Exercises
• 41.Stress
• 41.1.Fixed Stress
• 41.2.Lexical Stress
• 41.3.Weight and Stress
• 41.4.Computing Stress with Feet
• Exercise
• 42.Substrings and Sets of Strings
• 43.Beyond Perfect Datasets: What Can We Ignore?
• 43.1.Equivalence Classes in Rules via Substrings
• 43.2.Natural Classes of Segments in Rule Environments
• 43.3.Natural Classes of Segments in Rule Targets
• 44.Using Properties in Rules
• 45.More on Rules with Properties
• 45.1.Natural Classes Defined by Generalized Intersection

• Note continued: 52.Nothing IV: Non-surfacing URs Revisited
• Exercise
• 53.Turkish Vowel Harmony I
• Exercises
• 54.Discussion: Surface Segments and SMDs
• Exercises
• 55.Turkish Vowel Harmony II
• Exercise
• 56.Turkish Vowel Harmony III
• Exercises
• 57.Greek Letter Variables and Quantification in Rules
• 57.1.Further Thoughts on Greek Letters
• 57.2.Identity Conditions in Rules
• 57.3.Non-identity Conditions in Rules
• Exercises
• 58.Applying What We Have Learned-Lamba
• Exercises
• 59.High Quality Ignorance
• 59.1.Overview of the Data
• 59.2.First Analysis: Two Aspirating Rules
• 59.3.Second Analysis: One Aspirating Rule
• 59.4.The Benefits of Commitment
• Exercises
• 60.The Remote and Complex Phonology of the English Plural
• 60.1.The Extension of the Target: A Toy Example
• 60.2.The Extension of the Environment: The English Plural
• 61.Combinatorics and the Plausibility of Universal Grammar
• 61.1.Power Sets

• Note continued: 61.2.Combinatorics of the Universal Segment Inventory
• 61.2.1.Assuming Two Choices per Feature
• 61.2.2.Assuming Three Choices per Feature
• 61.3.Combinatoric Explosion of the Set of Segment Inventories
• 61.4.Combinatoric Explosion via Rule Syntax
• 61.5.Combinatoric Explosion of the Lexicon
• 61.6.Cellular Automata Illustration of Tone Combinatorics
• 61.7.The Bright Side of Combinatoric Explosion
• Exercises
• 62.Postscript
• Exercises.

An introduction to generative phonology using tools of basic set theory, logic, and combinatorics. This textbook introduces phonological theory as a branch of cognitive science for students with minimal background in linguistics. The authors use basic math and logic, including set theory, some rules of inference, and basic combinatorics, to explain phonology, and use phonology to teach the math and logic. The text is unique in its focus on logical analysis, its use of toy data, and its provision of some interpretation rules for its phonological rule syntax. The book's eight parts cover preliminary and background material; the motivation for phonological rules; the development of a formal model for phonological rules; the basic logic of neutralization rules; the traditional notions of allophony and complementary distribution; the logic of rule interaction, presented in terms of function composition; a survey of such issues as length, tone, syllabification, and metathesis; and features and feature logic, with a justification of decomposing segments into features and treating segments as sets of (valued) features. End-of-chapter exercises help students apply the concepts presented. Much of the discussion and many of the exercises rely on toy data, but more "real" data is included toward the end of the book. Exercises available online can be used as homework or in-class quizzes.
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• Preface Part I 1. The Functional Typology of Sound Substitution Setting the scene The functional typology of sound substitution Learning the alternants Summary and conclusion Doing phonology: Dutch 2. Meaning-Changing Sound Substitution Introduction Three examples of meaning-changing sound substitution Summary and conclusion Doing phonology: Southern Kongo Part II 3. Meaning-Merging Sound Substitution Introduction Dutch Korean, Chinese, and Chong Hungarian Summary and conclusion Doing phonology: Russian 4. Meaning-Maintaining Sound Substitution Introduction Four cases of meaning-maintaining sound substitution Physical similarity versus functional identity `Two-and-a-half' cases of mistaken identity Summary and conclusion Doing phonology: Korean 5. Variation and Probability Introduction Models of variation Probability matching Probability matching promotes category separation and phonetic stability Trique trans-velar labial harmony Comaltepec Chinantec tone alternation High-tone behaviour in Zulu and elsewhere Summary and conclusion Doing phonology: Chiquihuitlan Mazatec 6. The Pull of Phonetics
• the Push of Semantics Introduction Corsican again American English Word-initial position Summary and conclusion Doing phonology: Lithuanian Part III 7. Loquor ergo es Introduction Ease of perception: Are speakers `altruistic'? Ease of production: Are speakers `selfish'? `Alphabetism' and `phonemism': Whence and whither? The `synchronic explanation' oxymoron `Synchronic explanation' Summary and conclusion Doing Phonology: Sea Dayak Appendix: Primer of Phonetic Rudiments Glossary Index.
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Taking an interdisciplinary approach to phonological theory and analysis, A Critical Introduction to Phonology introduces the key aspects of the discipline. Departing from the mainstream tradition, Daniel Silverman argues that the nature of linguistic sound systems can only be understood in the context of how they are used by speakers and listeners. By proposing that linguistic sound systems are the product of an interaction among sound (acoustics), mind (cognition), and body (physiology), Silverman focuses on the functional consequences of their interaction. Now with each chapter supplemented by a section on "Doing Phonology", together with phonological examples from a large corpus of data, this expanded second edition offers a provocative introduction to phonological theory. This book is essential reading for all students and researchers of phonology who are already familiar with the standard approaches and provides both a new theoretical background and the mechanical tools for truly successful phonological analyses.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theory and explanation in phonological typology
• 3. Phoneme inventories
• 4. Syllables
• 5. Segmental processes
• 6. Stress
• 7. Tone and intonation
• 8. Prosodic morphology
• 9. Conclusions.
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This book provides an overview of phonological typology: the study of how sounds are distributed across the languages of the world and why they display these distributions and patterns. It examines major phonological phenomena such as phoneme inventories, syllable structure, phonological alternations, stress, tone, intonation, and prosodic morphology, and investigates issues including how common certain types of sounds are cross-linguistically and why; how many languages differentiate questions and statements using intonation; which areas of the world tend to be associated with more complex tone distinctions; and the relationship between cross-linguistic and language-internal frequency. Data are drawn from existing typologies, from the results of a survey of various phonological patterns in the 100-language sample from the World Atlas of Language Structures, and from corpora of individual languages. Matthew Gordon analyses these data and explores the correlations between different - often superficially unrelated - phonological properties to gain insight into the driving forces behind these phenomena. He provides an overview of synchronic and diachronic explanations for the patterns observed and discusses how formal phonological theory has attempted to model the typological data. One of relatively few typological works devoted to phonology, this book will be a valuable resource for phonologists and phoneticians from advanced undergraduate level upwards, as well all those with an interest in language typology.
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This volume captures a wide spectrum of phonological explorations covering three main areas: research architecture, pattern analysis, and inter-linguistic interface. These numerous shades of phonology are revealed through the work of authors who hail from Asia and America, featuring, among others, such giants as Paul Kiparsky, Diana Archangeli, Douglas Pulleyblank, Sharon Inkelas, Ellen Broselow, Duanmu San, Yen-hwei Lin, and James Myers.
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• 1. Gesture, feature, autosegment
• 2. Phonetics in phonology
• 3. Defining prosody
• 4. Modulations
• 5. On duality of patterning
• 6. Phonological events.
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In this book, D. Robert Ladd focuses on problems with the one-dimensional idealization of language on which much linguistic theory is based. Strings of sequentially-ordered elements play an important role as theoretical abstractions in both phonology and syntax. Yet many well-known phonological phenomena (such as vowel harmony, ablaut morphology, and pitch features) are problematic for this one-dimensional idealization, and many attempts (such as autosegmental phonology) have been made to allow for these troublesome characteristics in our theories. The book deals with diverse aspects of these problematical non-sequential phenomena. The five main chapters cover distinctive features and autosegments, systematic phonetics, the definition of 'prosody', aspects of vocal paralinguistic communication and 'gradience', and duality of patterning. Each chapter reviews a wide range of relevant literature, generally going back to the beginnings of modern linguistics in the early twentieth century, and all of them can usefully be read as free-standing synthetic overviews of the issues they discuss. The final chapter suggests that phonological structure, sequential or otherwise, can be seen as a special case of the segmentation of continuous action into discrete events, and that research on this general topic within cognitive psychology is relevant to phonological theory. Professor Ladd's unique work makes a fundamental contribution to phonology and phonetics and to linguistic theory more generally. His book will interest all theoretical linguists and cognitive scientists concerned with understanding the relation between phonological representations and the speech signal.
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• List of Contributors vii Preface ix 1 Rules v. Constraints 1 David Odden
• 2 Opacity and Ordering 40 Eric Bakovic '
• 3 The Interaction Between Morphology and Phonology 68 Sharon Inkelas
• 4 Quantity 103 Stuart Davis
• 5 Stress Systems 141 Matthew Gordon
• 6 The Syllable 164 John Goldsmith
• 7 Tone: Is it Different? 197 Larry M. Hyman
• 8 Harmony Systems 240 Sharon Rose and Rachel Walker
• 9 Contrast Reduction 291 Alan C. L. Yu
• 10 Diachronic Explanations of Sound Patterns 319 Gunnar Olafur Hansson
• 11 Phonetics in Phonology 348 D. R. Ladd
• 12 Corpora and Exemplars in Phonology 374 Mirjam Ernestus and R. Harald Baayen
• 13 The Place of Variation in Phonological Theory 401 Andries W. Coetzee and Joe Pater
• 14 The Syntax-Phonology Interface 435 Elisabeth Selkirk
• 15 Intonation 485 Mary E. Beckman and Jennifer J. Venditti
• 16 Dependency-based Phonologies 533 Harry van der Hulst
• 17 The Acquisition of Phonology 571 Katherine Demuth
• 18 Phonology as Computation 596 John Coleman
• 19 Using Psychological Realism to Advance Phonological Theory 631 Matthew Goldrick
• 20 Learning and Learnability in Phonology 661 Adam Albright and Bruce Hayes
• 21 Sign Language Phonology 691 Diane Brentari
• 22 Language Games 722 Bert Vaux
• 23 Loanword Adaptation: From Lessons Learned to Findings 751 Carole Paradis and Darlene LaCharite References 779 Index 914.
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The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition offers an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology, and the implications of these within linguistic theory and related disciplines. Revised from the ground-up for the second edition, the book is comprised almost entirely of newly-written and previously unpublished chapters Addresses the important questions in the field including learnability, phonological interfaces, tone, and variation, and assesses the findings and accomplishments in these domains Brings together a renowned and international contributor team Offers new and unique reflections on the advances in phonological theory since publication of the first edition in 1995 Along with the first edition, still in publication, it forms the most complete and current overview of the subject in print.
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• 1: Introduction
• 2: Sameness and difference in phonology
• 3: Biuniqueness and monosystematicity
• 4: Segmentation
• 5: Phonetic implementation and abstractness
• 6: Derivation and constraints: towards an alternative proposal
• 7: Penlectal grammars.
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This book is an investigation of the basic concepts of phonological theory. In particular it is concerned with the concepts of sameness and difference, each a sine qua non of classification. It is assumed that all academic disciplines operate with these two basic concepts when classification is involved. Since phonology is the area of linguistics that deals with the interface between the abstract system of native speaker knowledge and physical entities in the world, the linguistic classification of those physical entities needs to be guided by clear and rigorously applied criteria for deciding what constitutes the same sound and what not. During the development of modern linguistics over the past hundred years or so it has generally been assumed that the criteria for classification are to be found in a segmented version of the phonetic continuum of spoken language. This is still largely the case today, even though the system of native speaker knowledge of language is seen as a highly abstract mental representation of that knowledge. This book questions the basis of such assumptions, in particular segmentation, abstractness, monosystemicity and derivation. Key features: *The first book to deal with aspects of phonology which are often ignored or passed over very briefly in the available literature, yet are at the core of the subject. *Considers various recent developments across a range of phonological theories. *Explores a range of key issues in phonological theory which relate to the application of sameness and difference: biuniqueness, monosystemicity, derivation, specification, abstractness, segmentation, panlectal grammars.
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• Preface
• .1. Phonetics
• .2. Phonemic analysis
• .3. More on phonemes
• .4. Features
• .5. Morphology
• .6. Phonological alternation I
• .7. Phonological alternation II
• .8. Morphophonemic analysis
• .9. Productivity
• .10. The role of morphology and syntax
• .11. Diachrony and synchrony
• .12. Abstractness
• .13. Syllables
• .14. Stress, stress rules, and syllable weight
• .15. Tone and intonation.Appendix: On phonology problems.
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Accessible, succinct, and including numerous student-friendly features, this introductory textbook offers an exceptional foundation to the field for those who are coming to it for the first time. It provides an ideal first course book in phonology, written by a renowned phonologist. It is developed and tested in the classroom through years of experience and use. It emphasizes analysis of phonological data, placing this in its scientific context, and explains the relevant methodology. It guides students through the larger questions of what phonological patterns reveal about language. It includes numerous course-friendly features, including multi-part exercises and annotated suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter.
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• PART ONE PREREQUISITES AND ANALYSIS
• PART TWO: PROSODY
• PART THREE: SPEECH SOUNDS IN HISTORY AND CULTURE.
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This book presents Jorgen Rischel's most important work on language and sound structure. It includes some of the most original and groundbreaking research of four decades. The chapters focus on stress, syllabification, accent, and vowel harmony, and their interactions with other aspects of language. They include exemplary descriptions of the sound systems of a wide range of languages, cover both synchronic and diachronic analysis, and reflect the authors lifelong interest in typology. The book will interest phonologists, phoneticians, and language typologists throughout the world.
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• 1. Introduction: themes in phonology Paul de Lacy
• Part I. Conceptual Issues: 2. In pursuit of theory Alan Prince
• 3. Functionalism Matthew Gordon
• 4. Markedness Keren Rice
• 5. Derivations and levels of representation John J. McCarthy
• 6. Representation John Harris
• 7. Contrast Donca Steriade
• Part II. Prosody: 8. The syllable Draga Zec
• 9. Feet and metrical stress Rene Kager
• 10. Tone Moira Yip
• 11. The phonology of intonation Carlos Gussenhoven
• 12. The interaction of tone, sonority and prosody Paul de Lacy
• Part III. Subsegmental Features: 13. Segmental features Tracy Alan Hall
• 14. Local assimilation and constraint interaction Eric Bakovic
• 15. Harmony Diana Archangeli and Douglas Pulleybank
• 16. Dissimilation in grammar and the lexicon John Alderete and Stefan Frisch
• Part IV. Internal Interfaces: 17. The phonetics-phonology interface John Kingston
• 18. The syntax-phonology interface Hubert Truckenbrodt
• 19. Morpheme position Adam Ussishkin
• 20. Reduplication Suzanne Urbanczyk
• Part V. External Interfaces: 21. Diachronic phonology Ricardo Bermudez-Otero
• 22. Variation and optionality Arto Anttila
• 23. Acquiring phonology Paula Fikkert
• 24. Learnability Bruce Tesar
• 25. Phonological impairment in children and adults Barbara Bernhardt and Joseph Stemberger.
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Phonology - the study of how the sounds of speech are represented in our minds - is one of the core areas of linguistic theory, and is central to the study of human language. This state-of-the-art handbook brings together the world's leading experts in phonology to present the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the field to date. Focusing on the most recent research and the most influential theories, the authors discuss each of the central issues in phonological theory, explore a variety of empirical phenomena, and show how phonology interacts with other aspects of language such as syntax, morphology, phonetics, and language acquisition. Providing a one-stop guide to every aspect of this important field, The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology will serve as an invaluable source of readings for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, an informative overview for linguists, and a useful starting point for anyone beginning phonological research.
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